Personal profile

Biography

Shaun Richman is an historian of U.S. labor and American Communism, with a particular focus on union organizing, the service sector and the American Federation of Labor. He spent a decade and a half as a union organizer and representative, including as a Deputy Director of Organizing for the American Federation of Teachers, where he ran the union’s national charter school organizing division. Much of his writing has focused on union strategy and structure and proposals for labor law reform. He has been published in The American Prospect, In These Times, Jacobin, The New York Daily News, New York Review of Books, New York Times, the Staten Island Advance, the Washington Post and Vox.

Education/Academic qualification

Master of Arts, Liberal Studies, SUNY Empire State University

Award Date: 23 Aug 2023

Master of Science, Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Award Date: 7 May 2011

Bachelor of Arts, Laor Studies, City University of New York

Award Date: 31 Jan 2002

External positions

Program Director, SUNY Empire State University

28 May 2018 → …

Deputy Director of Organization & Field Services, American Federation of Teachers

20052016